DAEMONHUNTERS:
GREY KNIGHTS IN BATTLEFLEET GOTHIC
Continuing our Eye of Terror coverage, and tying in with the new Grey Knights strike
cruiser from Forge World, we being you rules for using members of the Inquisition and
tehir attendant Chambers Militant in Battlefleet Gothic...
THE CHAMBERS MILITANT: GREY KNIGHTS
Like the ground-based armies of the Imperial
Guard and Adeptus Astartes, elements of the
Imperial Navy may from time to time be
inducted by the Ordo Malleus and placed
under the command of an Inquisitor Lord.
Such forces maintain their own admirals and
officers, since the marshalling of an entire fleet
is a life-long skill and one that even the greatest
of Inquisitor Lords is unlikely to be capable of.
Instead, an Inquisitor will act in concert with
the fleet’s own commander, determining
matters of strategy and dictating priority while
allowing the admiral to govern the running of
the vessels themselves.
Inquisitors are served, as need demands, by all
manner of henchmen, aides, bodyguards and
other attendants. Most importantly they can
call upon the Chambers Militant – highly
trained and equipped fighting forces attached
to each of the Ordos of the Inquisition. The
Daemonhunting Inquisitors of the Ordo
Malleus, for example, can call upon the
Chamber Militant known as the Grey Knights
Space Marines when required.
The Grey Knights are a very secretive Space
Marine Chapter, founded amidst much secrecy
and answerable only to the Ordo Malleus itself.
On the battlefield an Inquisitor may be
accompanied by squads of these legendary
fighters and likewise, if called to undertake his
duty in space itself, may be accompanied by
bodyguards composed of Grey Knights. If the
mission is especially crucial, the Inquisitor may
well station Grey Knight Boarding Parties on
other vessels in the fleet, or even go so far as to
call in the support of a Grey Knights strike
cruiser or Battlebarge.
INQUISITORS & GREY KNIGHT
SPACE MARINES IN BATTLEFLEET GOTHIC
The following fleet entries provide you with a
number of ways of incorporating the
Chambers Militant into Battlefleet Gothic
fleets. A fleet may only ever include
representatives of a single Chamber Militant,
never more. The entries described here
represent the Grey Knights Space Marines,
Chamber Militant of Ordo Malleus.
0-1 Inquisitor Lord
If you wish, any Imperial Navy or Space
Marine fleet may include an Inquisitor Lord
(in addition to any fleet commander which
may be required by the appropriate fleet list).
You cannot choose an Inquisitor in place of a
fleet commander if one is required.
Inquisitor Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 pts
An Inquisitor Lord must be placed aboard your
fleet commander’s flagship. Inquisitor Lords
have no leadership of their own, and are simply
treated as part of the vessel they are aboard.
Special Jurisdiction: Inquisitor Lords possess
some of the greatest authority held by any
within the Imperium of man. While an
Inquisitor Lord will not hesitate to announce
his wishes, he will rarely explain his reasons.
While an Inquisitor will remain alongside a
fleet’s admiral, apparently sharing command of
the fleet, there is every chance that delegates
and subordinates of his move amongst other
vessels in the fleet, doing the Inquisitor’s
bidding and putting into action plans kept
hidden from even the other members of the
fleet. If a ship or squadron in the Inquisitor’s
fleet fails the command check for making a
special order, the Inquisitor puts into motion
some special plan of his own, allowing a single
vessel in the fleet to attempt a special order.
Regardless of whether or not this extra order
attempt is successful, no further orders may be
made after this in the same turn.
Grey Knight Terminators
An Imperial Navy vessel carrying an Inquisitor
may be equipped with Grey Knight Terminator
Boarding parties at a cost of +50 points.
Grey Knight Terminators use the same special
rules as Terminator Boarding parties in the
main Space Marine fleet list, and in addition
gain the Daemonhunters special rule below.
Grey Knight Boarding Parties
While the immensely powerful Grey Knight
Terminators will only ever serve as the personal
bodyguard of an Inquisitor Lord, boarding
parties composed of power armoured Grey
Knight Space Marines may sometime s be
placed aboard other vessels within a fleet
inducted to Ordo Malleus.
Any Imperial Navy capital ship in a fleet which
includes an Inquisitor may be supplied with
Grey Knight boarding parties at a cost of +20
points per vessel.
If stationed aboard an Imperial Navy vessel,
Grey Knight boarding parties add +1 to the
dice roll for any hit-and-run attacks made from
their parent vessel. Grey Knights contribute no
bonus in boarding actions, since they are too
few in number to sway an entire boarding
action so heavily. Grey Knights also benefit
from the Daemonhunters special rule below.
GREY KNIGHT VESSELS
IN IMPERIAL NAVY FLEETS
More rarely than boarding parties, an
Inquisitor may deem a mission to be of such
vital importance that the Grey Knights own
vessels are called into action. An Imperial Navy
fleet may include up the following number of
Grey Knight vessels, depending on the total
size of the fleet.
Fleet Size Permitted Number of
(points) Grey Knight Vessels
0-500 None GREY KNIGHTS FLEETS
You may, if you wish, select a fleet using the
501-1,000 Up to one Strike Cruiser
normal Space Marine fleet list then purchase
1,001-1,500 Up to one Battlebarge or an Inquisitor and nominate the fleet as a
up to two Strike Cruisers completely Grey Knights fleet! If you do
1,501+ Up to one Battlebarge and choose to do this, you must take the
up to two Strike Cruisers Terminator Boarding Parties option for the
Master of the Fleet’s ship (which will be Grey
Any vessels taken must be paid for at the cost
Knights Terminators, obviously). Grey
shown in the Space Marine fleet list, plus an
Knights’ vessels use the normal Space Marine
extra +20 points per vessel because they are
special rules and in addition gain the
Grey Knights. The vessels cannot have a fleet
Daemonhunters special rule below.
commander, and cannot buy any optional
extras (Terminators, etc) – they are simply used If you choose to play with a Grey Knights fleet,
as the basic version of the appropriate vessel. your fleet must be composed of appropriate
Grey Knights strike cruisers and battlebarges models painted in appropriate Grey Knights
follow all the normal rules for Space Marine colours (i.e. you can’t just choose for your
vessels, and are also subject to the Space Marines to be Grey Knights just because
Daemonhunters special rules below. you are fighting against Chaos).

Special Rules: Daemonhunters

Grey Knights Space Marines and Grey Knight Terminators are Daemonhunters, trained by the Ordo
Malleus for the specific purpose of hunting down and rooting out Daemons wherever they may lie.
Against any vessel bearing a Mark of Chaos, hit-and-run attacks carried out by Grey Knights roll 2D6
on the critical hits table, instead of the normal 1D6 for hit-and-run attacks. If you need to, make a
separate roll to hit first, then roll 2D6 on the critical table (though in most cases, Space Marines will
automatically hit due to their +1 bonus in hit-and-run attacks, so the to hit roll will not be necessary).
Grey Knight vessels (not vessels with Grey Knight or Grey Knight Terminator Boarding Parties)
ignore the penalties associated with the Marks of Slaanesh and Nurgle (so no -2 Leadership for being
within 15cm of Slaaneshi vessel, and they may board vessels marked by Nurgle).
However, since these advantages are distinctly more powerful against Chaos fleets, Chaos players
gain some additional benefits when faced by Grey Knights to represent the increased Daemonic
activity that the Inquisitor and his Grey Knights are inevitably hunting. A Chaos player counts all
ships carrying Grey Knights Boarding Parties as 10% more expensive than they really are when
calculating victory points and counts all Grey Knight vessels as 25% more expensive in the same
manner.